The French National Assembly votes on a comprehensive bill to combat sexual violence

The French National Assembly votes on a comprehensive bill to combat sexual violence

The French Assembly will vote on Tuesday on a comprehensive draft law to combat gender and sexual violence, a project that is the result of years of collective mobilization in France. From time immemorial there has been great controversy over various points in the content of the law related to the prevention of violence and improving the reception of victims at police stations. The draft law, inspired by Spanish legislation published in 2004, was re-introduced following the public uproar following the rape of the girl Lihana, a case that revealed that warnings about the main suspect had been ignored for nine years.

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